->BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN-->-- a telegram from the children's father, in ''Literature/SwallowsAndAmazons''

->'''Ned Flanders' Mother:''' [About a young Ned's destructive behaviour] You gotta help us, Doc. We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Hurricane Neddy"

->'''Indiana:''' It was just the two of us, dad. It was a lonely way to grow up, for you too. If you'd been an ordinary, average father like the other guys had, you'd have understood that.->'''Henry:''' Actually, I was a wonderful father.->'''Indiana:''' When?->'''Henry:''' Did I ever tell you to eat up, go to bed, wash your ears, do your homework? No, I respected your privacy, and I taught you self-reliance.->'''Indiana:''' What you taught me was that I was less important to you than people who'd been dead for five hundred years in another country. And I learned it so well, we've hardly spoken for twenty years.->'''Henry:''' You left just when you were becoming interesting.-->-- ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''